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I have set myself a goal to have Alpha Book Two, Chapters 0-2 posted by the middle of next week.
I have enough free time this week to do it. The Book Two Prologue is finished. Chapter One is very close to being complete. Chapter Two is not as close to being finished, but is still mostly done.
Now if I can just avoid being distracted by plans for Chapters 3 and 4 and possible side stories long enough to finish the current work... I'll have them posted.
Thank you for being patient with me.
Just a quick note that something or someone apparently got into my yahoo account. If anyone got spam from my email address, I apologize. Acct and access have been reset. (If it happens again, I'll create a new email.)
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(Minor spoilers for Bioshock Infinite)
I've been playing Bioshock Infinite recently (a couple months after release). The game is beautiful and disturbing and has pretty good gameplay. I'd recommend it to any fan of FPS games. (Heck, I'd have enjoyed it as a purely exploratory non-combat game, given how interesting the opening levels of the game were. Their society based on religious worship of the United States founding fathers is fascinatingly disturbing in and of itself, and that's before you add in racism, a prophetic leader, odd super-science and gorgeous 1900's visuals.)
One of the really good elements within the game is Elizabeth, who is both the goal of the game and combat support. Her character is that of a highly intelligent and powerful innocent who is suddenly exploring the world for the first time. It is literally a joy to watch her experience even simple pleasures for the first time.
I've been seriously considering including Elizabeth (and maybe Rosalind Lutece, the super-scientist who made the floating cities possible) in the Alpha series, but I finally realized that the earliest they could come in would be Chapter 4 (though 5 or 6 is more realistic). Bringing them in would be exceedingly easy, plotwise, since they can both jump between dimensions (and apparently time as well). Bringing in multiple Elizabeths would be just as easy, since by the end of the game it is apparent that there are possibly infinite versions of her.
(As a side note, to those fans of Alyx Vance of Half-life 2, who I consider to be the other great female FPS sidekick, I've always planned to bring her to life, but not until a specific future story/setting.)
So my aborted start to that story took up a lot of the past couple weeks. Now I'm back on track with the current Alpha stories.
The spread of computer intelligences is going to have world-wide impacts. (Heck, a government will be toppled in chapter 2 in what amounts to a large side-note.) This is a 'genie out of the bottle' scenario.
Balancing those aspects of the story with the character stuff is proving to be challenging, and some of it is going to develop in little asides or excerpts throughout the chapters. Chapter 3 will see the first full-chapter focus on the larger stage story.
Just a quick post to say I'm not dead yet.
I've been writing regularly for the past couple months, at least a couple days a week, a least a couple pages a sitting. But, being an inefficient writer, I'm writing the prologue, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 all at the same time instead of in sequence like a sane person. Among other things, this slows me down with regular needs to rewrite previous sections. Basically, when I'm inspired or figure out how to work a scene or get an idea, I need to write it down right away, or I'll sometimes forget.
Anyway, the prologue is currently about 80% complete; Chapter One is currently 50-60%; and Chapter Two is currently 30-40%. (And I'm starting to make notes about chapters 3 & 4.)
Hello everyone.
Well, when last I posted, I had THOUGHT I was going to have time to write again. I was wrong. I had too much going on in my life and had to put my writing on hold (among other things).
I would also like to offer my apologies to those I haven't responded to in email. I'll hopefully get to the backlog over the next few days.
In a week or two, I once again think I'm about to have time available. I still need to get my new desktop set up -- by the way, since I write on my laptop, this is not a direct excuse/reason for my absence, but it should be the last big item on my "to do" list that needs to be completed -- after which I may have an hour or more every day or two to get back to writing.
The good news is that I've been building up ideas that haven't had an outlet for the past couple months, like steam build-up in a boiler that's either going to start powering an engine or will explode in protest.
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